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Response to the officials /

of the Contratación de las Indias/

     1504

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                                                 The King /

Doctor Matienzo and Don Francisco Pinelo.  We have received your letters and we appreciate the good / diligence you have applied in the managing of the things in your purview.  And regarding the things you have /

written to us about that require a response from us, you must do in everything what is hereby contained in the /

following manner: /

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As to what you say whether we will issue license so that slave women /
may be taken to La Española, we estimate they /
should be taken, since there is no inconvenience whatsoever about them /
provided that those going [there] are Christian /

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Apply in everything the care and diligence that you have so far applied, as /
we trust you will do. In Medina del Campo, on twenty six days of the month of August / 
of five hundred and four years. I the King. In lieu of the King, Gaspar de Grisio /

             Done in Medina del Campo on 26 of August of 1504 /